The Stranger In My Home: The stunning domestic noir from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of BOTH OF YOU

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A famous female lawyer suspects that her client, a homeless transient, may in fact be a brother she lost many years ago.

Although her fragile mental state on arrival is credibly explained by her abusive relationship with a controlling ex-boyfriend, she is wilfully blind and responsible for much of her downfall in Derbyshire given that she acknowledges niggling suspicions and fails to ask the obvious. Dealing with the sensitive issue of taking the wrong babies from hospital this spans 15 years before the truth comes out.Can she really trust handsome neighbour Craig who conveniently appeared and helped her when she had a unpleasant encounter with Angus McCready? A heart-warming, heart breaking tale of love and loss, with an ending that will knock you off your feet. A perceptive insight into family life, both idyllic and dreadful, and the individuals that are part of it. I had no idea of where this book would take me but having read Adele Parks previously I knew it would certainly be well written. Cuckoo, predominantly a work of psychological suspense that also has a fairytale vibe to add intrigue, is a work I admire as any author who attempts to pen a unique novel rather than using the same tired templates is on the path to a possible bestseller.

Caro spends weeks wandering around, listening to random noises, being scared of a musical instrument I had to Google, and really just doing everything humanly possible to drag the pacing of the plot into the fucking ground. There were obvious elements of horror and the supernatural but they didn't work for me and sadly found Caro, the main protagonist, constantly wandering around the old house listening to strange 'clacking' noises and her trepidation of approaching a pear drum she was scared of from her youth, really quite ridiculous.There is one thing I’ve discovered following a marathon read of thrillers—my family isn’t nearly as dysfunctional as I previously thought. The Stranger In My Home centres around a family who find out that the daughter they have raised for 15 years isn’t actually their biological daughter due to a hospital mix up. The author also seemed genre-confused and consistently flirted with the inclusion of supernatural elements, but without any follow through.